Mirror attached spectacle frame



2 March 1950 J. KOZLOFF MIRROR ATTACHED SPECTACLE FRAME Filed Jan. 14,1948 IN V EN TOR.

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tion of the nose of the user. there is provided a head engagingstructure which Patented Mar. 28, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1Claim.

, s 1 This invention relates to new and useful im- .provement1 in mirrorsupports.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a. mirror andmirror-support combination of a novel and useful type, and one of suchnature that the mirror support may be readily attached to the body of aperson desiring to use the mirror for facial .inspection and, forinstance, in

the case of a woman, for cosmetic application,

. or, for instance, in the case of a man, for shaving.

I According to the invention, the new appliance, a'readily portable one,and preferably 'various'ly collapsible to facilitate considerablyreducing its over-all dimensions for storage or portage between uses,andlalso. preferably, having the mirror so mounted that the same can betilted as desired either .formaximum value in use or for increasing theextent of collapsibility of the appliance between uses, is attachab'e,as aforesaid, to the users body, and directly thereto. The attachment ofthe appliance is to the head of the user, by means solely of elementsfor coactingly engaging the ears and the upper por- In'this connection,

incorporates a forehead bridging member and a 1 pair of temple pieces ofthe kind familiar in the spectacle-frame art.

gsaid bridging member, if employed merely as such, comprises a mainupper portion, from the lower central part of which depends a pair ofoutwardly diverging projections for straddling the upper portion of thenose of the wearer. However, when desired, said bridging member may beactually in the form of a spectacle frame, for

, mounting eyesight-corrective lenses; in which case the nose straddlingmeans may be provided other than as the projections just mentioned.

The new appliance further includes an anterior supporting frame,extending or extensible I substantially horizontally in front of thebridging member and at its forward end carrying a mirror. Said anteriorframe may include a pair of side supports each incorporating a pluralityof links, with the links of each side support pivotally interconnectedand with one of such links pi-votally connected to the bridging member,and also, if desired, with another of said links pivotally connected tothe mirror.

The invention thus provides a mirror and mirror-support combinationwhich can be instantaneously attached to and detached from the body ofthe user, and one which is not only directly attached to the body ratherthan wholly or partially to the attire of the user, but thus attachedsolely to .an upper part of the head of the user, and so withelimination of auxiliary braces or other additions which extend downfrom the general horizontal plane of the appliance when worn, thereby toleave wholly freely accessible any and all facial, neck and throatareas.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawing, and to the appended ment of the invention, thesame being shown as I a collapsible one, but now expanded for use.

Fig. -2 is a similar view, showing the appliance collapsed.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 'is a similar view, but taken at a "corresponding point through amodification wherein the bridging member is of a different shape fromthat shown in Fig. 3, for carrying at each side an eyesight-correctivelens.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view, showing the appliance as worn by a woman,and in use as an aid in cosmetic application.

Fig. '6 is 'a similar view, but showing the appliance as worn by a man,and in use during shaving.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the appliance comprises a bridgingmember ID from the lower central portion of which depends a pair ofdownwardly diverging projections or nosepieces ll.

Hinged as at l2 to the rear side of the bridgingmember H) at each of itsopposite ends is a temple piece l4 terminating in an ear-hook 15. Theseparts are used to attach the appliance firmly and securely to the headof the user, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

The anterior supporting frame for the mirror 5 comprises a pair of sidesupports, both as here shown incorporating a like line of links. Eachsuch line comprises a rear link I! hinged as at I8 to the front side ofthe bridging member In at one end thereof, and a forward link l9 pivo edto the link I! as at 20.

In order to permit the anterior supporting frame for the mirror to becollapsed as shown in Fig. 2. without having to detach the mirror Ittherefrom, a pair of mirror mounting fitments 2| are provided. Each suchfitment includes a forked element 22 for straddling a side edge of themirror and for being suitably secured to the latter as by a rivet 23, aside-piece 24, and a pivotal connection as at 25 between said element 22and said piece 24. Each side-piece 24 may be considered as a short link,and the same is pivotally connected as at 26 to the forward end of theadjacent forward link I9. I

The rotatable mountings of the forked elements 22 allow the mirror 16 tobe variously tilted with the appliance in use, and also to be swung 1vin under the links [9, as in Fig. 2, when collapsing Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byUnited States Letters Patent is:

In a spectacle frame having a member for extension across the foreheadabove the eyes and provided intermediate of its ends with a dependingnose-piece and at its ends with rearwardly extending temple pieces, amirror spaced forwardly of the member and parallel thereto and being aswide as said member is long, a pair of parallel side supports extendedforwardly from the ends located on opposite sides of said mirror, forkedelements mounted on the opposite sides of said mirror, and trunnionsextended laterally outward from said forked elements and rotativelysupported on the front ends of said side supends of the links l9 orequivalentafor perma-- nently holding the mirror l6 always substantiallyvertical or at an ascertained optimum reflection angle when theappliance is in use. In that case, the mirror could be merelyfrictionally held by the elements 22 or equivalents, so that the mirrorcould be readily detached from said elements or equivalents, thereby topermit even a greater degree of collapse for the anterior supportingframe than as illustrated in Fig. 2, by relative swings of the links ofeach pair oflinks ii and i9.

In such connection, it is to be emphasized that the invention is broaderthan the collapsible or non-collapsible nature of the anteriorsupporting frame for the mirror, or the manner of permanently ordetachabTy or rotatably or fixedly mounting the mirror at or near theforward end of said frame; and an analogous statement must also be madein regard to the manner of connection of the temple pieces M to thebridging member l0.

As shown in Fig. 4, wherein a bridging member ID is included, andwherein the parts corresponding to the parts I4, I! and I8 arerespectively marked l4, l7 and I8, said bridging member is shaped toprovide a pair of frame elements 21 for mounting a pair ofeyesight-corrective lenses 28. Here a substitute for the nose-pieces i lis shown as comprising the inner lower portions 29 of said frameelements 21.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of myinvention, it is to be understood that I do 'notlimit myself to theprecise constructions herein disclosed and the'right is reserved to allchanges and modifications coming within the scope of the invention asdefined in the appended claim.

ports, so that said mirror can be turned on a horizontal axis to adesired vertically inclined position, each of said side supportscomprising a pair of end aligned links having their adjacent endspivotally connected together to pivot inward rela-- tive toeach other ona horizontal plane, the rearmost link of each pair having its rear endpivotally attached to the ends of the member, and short links pivotallymounted on the front ends of the fore-most links of said and alignedlinks and extended at right angles across the sides of said mirror andupon which said trunnions are pivotally mounted, whereby said endaligned links may be collapsed moving said mirror close to the member bypivoting said aligned links relative to each other, relative to themember and relative to said short links leaving said short linksextended at right angles to said mirror.

JOHN KOZLOFF.

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